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Medium risk #09 DSI index

Discretionary spend index

How much of an authority's money is spent through direct purchases, without a tender.

The discretionary spend index (DSI) is the share of an authority's money spent without a tender: direct purchases plus offline purchases, out of everything it spent. It is not in itself a sign of fraud, because a direct purchase is legal below the ceiling. But a large share of a large budget shows how many decisions are taken without competition. One row is one authority in one year.

Authority-years assessed

4,323

Spent without a tender

109.79 Bn.

National index

11.2%

Authorities above 60% by year

Years marked * are not fully covered by the data: 2018, 2026.

What the money spent without a tender bought

The 12 largest CPV groups by value; the other 304 are added into a single tile. Only money spent without a tender (direct and offline).

National index, weighted by money, by year

How it is computed

Computed on every award from 2018 to today.

  1. Direct purchases and offline purchases are taken. Both are direct purchases; an offline purchase does not even go through the catalogue.
  2. Tender contracts are taken separately, by the value signed. Framework agreements are left out.
  3. Money is dated by when it was spent: the finalisation date for direct purchases and offline purchases, the contract date for tenders. If an offline purchase has no finalisation date yet, its publication date is used.
  4. It is grouped by authority and year. Each authority also has a row with its total across all years, shown when no year is chosen.
  5. The index is the two direct streams divided by everything the authority spent, as a percentage.
  6. Only authorities with at least 3 million lei in a year, or 20 million across all years, are included. Below that the index says nothing: a small authority need not run tenders, and almost every row would read 100%.

Thresholds

  • Minimum spending in a year: 3.000.000 RON
  • Minimum spending across all years: 20.000.000 RON
  • Above 60%: a strongly discretionary profile

The indicator measures how the money was spent, not whether it was lawful. It does not check whether a purchase passed the ceiling; indicators #01 and #02 do that. Actual payments are not in the data.

A high index can have legitimate reasons: an authority with no investment in a year spends almost only on running costs. Read it with indicator #06, which shows how much competition the tenders drew.

The full explanation, on the methodology page

Contracting authority Year Direct Off-catalogue Without a tender Tenders Total spent DSI index
JUDETUL SUCEAVA CUI: 4244512 All years 43,075,849 13,303 43,089,152 1,225,481,533 1,268,570,685 3.4%
UNITATEA MILITARA 0418 BUCURESTI CUI: 4204267 All years 22,690,386 20,339,609 43,029,995 50,267,136 93,297,131 46.1%
SPITALUL DE BOLI INFECTIOASE SI PSIHIATRIE BAIA MARE CUI: 3627501 All years 40,460,845 2,516,108 42,976,953 79,968,782 122,945,735 35.0%
COMUNA NOJORID CUI: 4454999 All years 42,847,158 105,465 42,952,623 134,766,144 177,718,767 24.2%
COMUNA VALU LUI TRAIAN CUI: 4671718 All years 39,346,375 3,539,678 42,886,053 100,619,482 143,505,535 29.9%
COMUNA SCHEIA CUI: 4327421 All years 41,178,560 1,632,494 42,811,054 141,239,936 184,050,990 23.3%
COMUNA BERCENI CUI: 2845338 All years 34,669,453 8,095,227 42,764,680 97,131,791 139,896,471 30.6%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL DRTEODOR ANDREI LUGOJ CUI: 2501652 All years 42,423,452 291,689 42,715,141 27,183,625 69,898,766 61.1%
ORAS PANCOTA CUI: 3518911 All years 42,280,931 394,762 42,675,693 40,582,349 83,258,042 51.3%
COMUNA SANMIHAIU ROMAN CUI: 5138404 All years 41,670,535 861,148 42,531,683 64,184,183 106,715,866 39.9%
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE NEUROLOGIE SI BOLI NEUROVASCULARE CUI: 7548010 All years 38,662,240 3,846,962 42,509,202 74,820,878 117,330,080 36.2%
ORAS HUEDIN CUI: 4485642 All years 41,939,110 498,650 42,437,760 56,106,052 98,543,812 43.1%
COMUNA BIXAD CUI: 3963986 All years 41,858,570 436,518 42,295,088 74,847,980 117,143,068 36.1%
AUTORITATEA NAVALA ROMANA CUI: 11055818 All years 34,414,409 7,801,986 42,216,395 143,725,952 185,942,347 22.7%
COMUNA LUMINA CUI: 4671807 All years 37,863,764 4,327,739 42,191,503 70,124,262 112,315,765 37.6%
SERVICIUL DE UTILITATE PUBLICA DE ADMINISTRARE SI GOSPODARIRE LOCALA BRAILA CUI: 15216313 All years 35,863,971 6,303,186 42,167,157 45,948,176 88,115,333 47.9%
ORASUL PREDEAL CUI: 4580423 All years 41,855,378 247,120 42,102,498 86,596,483 128,698,981 32.7%
ADMINISTRATIA NATIONALA DE METEOROLOGIE RA CUI: 11672708 All years 40,277,487 1,771,419 42,048,906 249,502,221 291,551,127 14.4%
SECRETARIATUL GENERAL AL GUVERNULUI CUI: 4283422 All years 41,645,134 399,358 42,044,492 120,905,425 162,949,917 25.8%
ORASUL FLAMANZI CUI: 3372173 All years 37,580,769 4,443,272 42,024,041 214,194,574 256,218,615 16.4%
COMUNA VALEA DOFTANEI CUI: 2843116 All years 39,154,129 2,820,791 41,974,920 54,756,954 96,731,874 43.4%
DIRECTIA GENERALA DE ASISTENTA SOCIALA SI PROTECTIA COPILULUI CUI: 8550000 All years 28,007,811 13,951,694 41,959,505 92,907,015 134,866,520 31.1%
SPITALUL MUNICIPAL TURDA CUI: 4287971 All years 41,861,722 87,932 41,949,654 4,513,929 46,463,583 90.3%
ORASUL ORAVITA CUI: 3227963 All years 41,914,369 0 41,914,369 301,381,864 343,296,233 12.2%
JUDETUL OLT CUI: 4394706 All years 41,852,075 0 41,852,075 1,022,187,425 1,064,039,500 3.9%

526-550 of 4323 results

Rows per page: 25 50 100
Contracting authority
The authority that spent. One row is one authority in one year.
Year
The year the money was spent. The All years row is the authority's total and is shown by default; years do not add up.
Direct
Direct purchases. The link opens them for the same authority and year.
Off-catalogue
Offline purchases: direct purchases made outside the catalogue. The link opens them.
Without a tender
Direct plus offline: the amount in question. The table is ordered by it.
Tenders
Tender contracts. The link opens the authority's tenders; there the year is the notice's, not the contract's, so the list does not reproduce the figure exactly.
Total spent
Everything the authority spent that year, in all streams. 90% of a small budget and 40% of a large one do not mean the same thing.
DSI index
The share without a tender, as a percentage of the total. Under 40% green, 40–60% amber, above 60% red. The colour shows the band, not a fault.

The same data, through the API

Every figure on this page comes from the public API, through the endpoints below. The parameters each one takes are in the documentation; each needs an access key.

  • /api/v1/red-flags/dsi/distribution
  • /api/v1/red-flags/dsi
  • /api/v1/red-flags/overview/years
  • /api/v1/red-flags/dsi/cpv-spend

Open data and API